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Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for...
2) Ivanhoe
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Penguin English library
Great illustrated classics volume E224-35
Everyman's library volume 16
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Great illustrated classics volume E224-35
Everyman's library volume 16
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English
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"A disgraced knight enters a tournament to regain his honor after being disinherited by his Saxon father. 'Ivanhoe', by Sir Walter Scott, is a historical romance set in twelfth century England. It's arguably Scott's most popular novel due to its depiction of chivalry, adventure and treachery within the political hierarchy." -Page 4 of cover.
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The classic epic of chivalry and courtly love features the disinherited knight Ivanhoe, his fair lady Rowena, and such larger-than-life characters as Richard the Lion-Hearted and Robin Hood. This novel of the Crusades, chivalry, and courtly love not only recreates history, but made history as well.
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"It's the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau realizes her only means of escape is to advertise her services as a domestic servant in England. Fate brings her ad to the attention of Christopher Rivers, handsome scion of the aristocratic Rivers family and master of Tyneford. An anxious Elise arrives at Tyneford and immediately falls under its spell. When Christopher's young son, Kit, returns home,...
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